ACGS member Dr Leonie Schmidt (Media Studies) will receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for her research project "Pop Preachers and Counter-terror Culture: Contesting ...

26 May 2016

NWO Vidi grant Rachel Spronk

ACGS member Dr Rachel Spronk will receive a Vidi grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for her research project "Sexuality and the making of the middle class. A comparative study of ...

1 Apr 2016

You Must Create? Boredom, Shanzhai and Digitization in the Time of ‘Creative China’

The ASCA Cities Project is pleased to announce the publication of Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space, published by Bloomsbury, February 2016. The book is the result of a two-year international ...

19 Jan 2016

Rubicon Leonie Schmidt

Pop Preachers and Counter-terror Culture: Contesting Terrorism through Social Media and Popular Culture in Indonesia

19 Jan 2016

In Memoriam Mario Rutten

It is with sadness that we wish to inform you of the death of our member, Mario Rutten, Professor of Comparative Sociology and Anthropology of Asia at the Department of Anthropology.

9 Dec 2015

Data Activism -- New Website

Data activism: The politics of big data according to civil society is a research project based at the Department of Media Studies of the University of Amsterdam and part of ASCA. It is funded by a Starting Grant of ...

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across ...

30 Nov 2015

New Book: Ashley Tellis and Sruti Bala, eds. The Global Trajectories of Queerness: Re-thinking Same-Sex Politics in the Global South.

‘The Global Trajectories of Queerness’ interrogates the term “queer” by mapping what space the theorizing of same-sex sexualities and politics in the non-West inhabits. From theoretical discussions to specific ...

20 Nov 2015

European Journal of Humour Research: Special Issue on Humour in Art and Activism

The special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research on “Humour in Art and Activism” (2015, vol. 2/3, eds. Veronika Zangl and Sruti Bala) addresses the intersection of art and activism by investigating ...

28 Oct 2015

Publication: Humour in Art and Activism

The special issue of the European Journal of Humour Research on “Humour in Art and Activism” (2015, vol. 2/3, eds. Veronika Zangl and Sruti Bala) addresses the intersection of art and activism by investigating ...

13 Oct 2015

Literary Canonicity in the 21st Century

This symposium is organised by the 'Literature of the 21 st Century' research group (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) with the support of Onderzoeksschool Literatuurwetenschap.

8 Sep 2015

Call for Papers - Global Adorno

It is constitutive for Critical Theory that it is linked to a moral and political ideal of self-reflexive enlightenment and emancipation. It is constitutive as well that such a theory is dependent on historical and ...

8 Sep 2015

Call for Papers - Visualising the Street

For the international conference 'Visualising the Street,' the ASCA Cities Project invites papers that explore the impact of contemporary practices of image-making on the visual cultures of the street.

8 Sep 2015

European Security Practices After 9/11 Public Conference

This half-day conference explores the current theoretical and empirical advances in studying European security. It brings together leading scholars to take stock of European counterterrorism and its political, ...

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